Ebola Virus: Outbreak Could Last Six More Months
Flood of Patients Indicates Outbreak Far More Severe Than Numbers Show, Says WHO
WSJ.com
Aug. 15, 2014
DAKAR, Senegal—The Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people has turned parts of West Africa into a medical battle zone and could last up to six more months, Doctors Without Borders warned Friday as a worker on the front lines in Liberia acknowledged that the true death toll is unknown.
Tarnue Karbbar, who works for the aid group Plan International in northern Liberia, said response teams simply aren’t able to document all the cases erupting. Many of the sick are still being hidden at home by their relatives, too fearful of going to an Ebola treatment center.
Others are buried before the teams can get to the area, he said. In the last several days, some 75 cases have emerged in a single district.
“Our challenge now is to quarantine the area to successfully break the transmission,” he said, referring to the Voinjama area.
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Beds in Ebola treatment centers are filling up faster than they can be provided, evidence that the outbreak in West Africa is far more severe than the numbers show, an official with the World Health Organization said Friday.
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